Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:50:03 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:34 +0100 > > From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! > > > There is a hierarchy that FreeBSD uses, the only minorly controversial point, > > that I believe gets discussed at every level from time to time over the > > years is the use of "/usr/local". This is really a semantic problem, in > > that "local" implies for a lot of people, their own "stuff" .. i.e. > > programs, scripts docs etc that they produce themselves. In FreeBSD it > > is the home of installed programs that are not part of the base > > distribution, viz. "ports". (Forgetting about X11 for a moment which > > plays by it's own rules). You can change this I believe if you really > > want to. > > Yes. You could put e. g. "LOCAL_BASE=/opt" in /etc/make.conf. > > > But if you go with the current hierarchy then the only thing you have to > > consider is what to do with your really local, local stuff :). > > Or you could install your really local, local stuff to /opt or > /local... I don't like the commingling of user dirs with the std. > hierarchy as described below. But that's just me. > I think you just choose what you find easiest to work with. Your scheme is also a good idea..mine is the lazy way, since my backup scripts just backup everything in /home unless I explicitly exclude any directory. > > I simply have an equivalent hierarchy under /home, i.e. > > /home/bin > > /home/sbin > > /home/etc > > ...and so on > > -- > FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE > 4:56PM up 12 days, 18:04, 17 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.19, 0.16 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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